Cushy - FAQ

Check out some of these frequently asked questions about the Cushy.

1. What is Cushy?

Cushy helps people explore and recommend places to their peers in the community through the experiences they share. (OR) Cushy is a platform that connects like-minded people who love exploring the city and beyond based on their interests and encourages them to share their experiences in a most expressive manner.

2. Why is location important?

Every experience is unique and is specific to location. Location becomes the most significant factor for a person to choose the place and reach the exact destination without any obstacle.

3. How does Cushy protect your Data and Privacy?

· Cushy only tracks the location of the image and doesn’t capture any other information from the phone. · Your data is yours and no one can edit or download your content. They can only share/repost your content. · Reposted content will always carry the user’s credentials, i.e. there is no identity theft · While signing up, Cushy doesn’t prompt for your phone number, but just your mail id. No other private details are shared in the app. · You can always block or report a user in a One to one chat in case of any misconduct.

4. Why can’t you share a Cushy directly in your profile?

Every single Cushy a user posts has a context. Hence, one can cushy their experiences based on the interest. A user’s profile will be a place for them to run through their memories that carry various experiences and interests.

5. How a community based app helps you grow as a person?

A community is always formed on the basis of like-mindedness or any single entity that is common and keeps people connected. As we are totally shifting towards the SELF-BUILT world, it’s time for us to look back and check out what one can learn from the experiences shared by the members in the community.

6. What is a channel?

A channel is nothing but a community that is formed to share experiences with the like-minded people. Private Channel - A channel that belongs to those who have created and those who have been added by the creators or admins. It has no visibility to the public and doesn’t fetch a place in the explore section Public Channel - A channel that has more of a public visibility i.e. it can be seen by all users and can fetch a place in explore section. Users can only see the Cushies posted and wouldn’t be able to chat unless they send a request to the channel.

7. Why should you use CHAT option?

CHAT option lets users unlock the potential to chat with the members of the community then and there and serves as a space for the members to meet new people through their experiences. It is quite a significant feature of this app, as it keeps the channel quite active and happening.

8. Why your experiences are valued more than your selfies?

Selfies or groupfies are more inclined towards the self and the group respectively, while a community here is built based on interests that will allow people to share experiences that mattered to them and to the people who have similar idea of interests. If you still want to share selfies and groupfies, make sure you give more importance to the background as well. If not, you always have an option to create a private channel where you can add selective people and discuss around that

9. Is Cushy a Social Networking app?And how is it different from other Social Networking apps?

Yes, Cushy is a Social Networking app. Cushy lets users share experiences that value to them with the people who just think alike. It sets an environment to recommend places, discuss around the experiences and look for the exact location. Cushy gives users an opportunity to know new experiences, discover places that hold nativity in places that are unknown and unheard of and lets users explore their neighbourhood much better.